Admissions to Schools 

This section is about applying for a school place at any time in the school year.  By law, children aged between 5 and 16 must receive an education. If you have moved into the borough and would like to apply for a place at any school, you will need to apply to the Admissions Team direct, not to the schools.

The admissions procedure and criteria are outlined in the ‘Finding a school place' booklet. Please make sure you read and understand the information in these pages before you apply.  Please fill in and return the ‘In-year application form’ along with proof of your address and your child’s identity and address.  We will process your application within 10 days of receiving your form and documents we ask for.

If you need an interpreter to explain this information to you in another language, download the Translation form and tick the boxes that apply.

Please remember there are other processes you must follow if:

• Your child is moving from primary to secondary school
• If your child is starting school for the first time; or
• Your child wants to transfer between schools

Map and contact details of infant, junior and primary schools in the borough

Contact details of secondary schools in the borough
Map of secondary schools in the borough

Admissions criteria for in-year applicants for community, trust and voluntary controlled schools in Barking and Dagenham  

If there are spaces at the school you ask for we can offer your child a place.  If the school is full or we receive more applications than the number of places available at a school, we will use admission criteria (conditions) to decide which applications to accept and which to turn down.

 Primary applicants:

• Priority 1 - Children who are in the care of the local authority
• Priority 2 - Children who have a brother or sister (sibling) at the school (or in the case of an infant school, the linked junior school) when that child is due to start school. We treat Furze Infant School and Warren Junior School, Village Infants and William Ford Church of England Junior School as linked for this purpose
• Priority 3 - Children at the infant school linked with the junior school.  (This priority is only used when processing applications for children transferring from infant to junior schools).
• Priority 4 - Children who live closest to the school, measured in kilometres in a straight line (as the crows flies)

Secondary applicants:

• Priority 1 - Children who are in the care of the local authority
• Priority 2 - Children who live closest to the school, measured in kilometres in a straight line (as the crows flies)